Justin Bieber’s reputation has suffered yet another damaging blow after a video of him joking about killing a ‘n*****’ and joining the Ku Klux Klan emerged online.

The footage, taken five years ago, sees the then 14-year-old look in to the camera and sing ‘There’ll be one less lonely n*****’ as he parodied his song One Less Lonely Girl.

According to TMZ, Bieber, now 20, and his team want the video in the public arena so he can face up to his actions. They say various people have used the clip to try and extort money from him over the past few years and think it’s time people saw it so he can accept responsibility and move on.

The footage comes just days after the Boyfriend singer apologised for telling racist jokes in a previous video leaked online. ‘I thought it was OK to repeat hurtful words and jokes, but didn’t realise at the time that it wasn’t funny and that in fact my actions were continuing the ignorance,’ he said.